Kudos 2: First Screens

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I’ve spent more than enough time with artist Jamie McKelvie over the last two weeks, so the knowledge I’m going to have to deal with him in my bloody day job is one to provoke a crushing sense of depression. Cliff Harris, who you may know as the creator of Democracy, the previous Kudos Band and 300-post threads about Piracy, has released the first images of Kudos 2, highlighting the art of Jamie “Kitten” McKelvie. Kudos follows its prequel in being an alternative-take on the Sims-life-management genre, seen through the filter of the Princess Maker games. Except much more twenty something. More here. And what did you do during your 20s, readers? I played videogames and drank. I would score lowly in Kudos 2.

I have vague memories of that time. I was generally pissing my life away, and I suspect I was responsible for a 2% of booze and alcoohol monthly consumption in my country. I think that’s when I also began paying more attention to music, literature and hentai. Also, some thing about these weird devices you plug into your telly and they go “blop”, “blip”, “zap!” as you navigate the weird colors they present. Or maybe it was just the drugs.

Institutionalised by the education system, where as i had it done to me by the MOD, break free of the chains and do something you want to do……….nah fuck that there’s no way on earth i wanted to be a server tech :(

Aha dear RPS readers please donate £10 each(10%goes to rps) so i can live the dream..in my pants!

See to me, Kudos was a really rubbish “answer a load of questions and we’ll show you some jobs which have no real correlation to your answers” programe [I refuse to call it a game] that I was forced to use once in secondary school about 4 years ago. I really hope Kudos 2 isn’t a sequal to that.

See, there’s another fascinating job path to put in there:
What would you like to do today?
A. Doubt Self.
B. Try to work on thesis.
C. Give in to the darkness and doubt that follows you around.

“What color is your parachute?” as a game: maybe not. But a game like this is all about repeatability and exploring the boundaries. Sex and dying in high society is one. “Did you see to much or shoot the horse and then close the gate?”-style-horse rider is another. And then there’s driving a surveillance van, always doing seven things and writing the code for brain implants.

The game concept has potential, and the artwork looks good too. I might have to check this out when it hit the torrentz^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H Just kidding, man.

I really didn’t like the generic 3D art in Kudos 1, but this is a definite improvement. As to how it plays…we’ll see. Looks like the mechanical effect of various actions is more clearly laid out, which would be a big help.

Its much clearer in this one how things affect your attributes. Plus there are a pile of extra attributes, and all kinds of usability changes.
The premise is the same, but everything has been expanded on and improved.
Anyway, there will be a demo, so you can see for yourself. :D

A beer 7.50? Brittania seems to be a harsh place to grow up.
Go to Germany, where alcohol is still a human right and dope tolerated in some places such as Hamburg. Work in a pub, leave all the money you make in a pub and fuck all the beautiful and open minded girls that usually work in pubs. You cannot loose that way except maybe your IQ.
I did it and have become a brainless socialist in my 20s. Fuck capitalism. Cheers.

My twenties are allmost over. Just a few weeks left. I know they started with me sitting in a flat I’ve never been before after tagging along with a bunch of people I barely knew. We watched “A tribute to Freddy Mercury” on VHS tape and after that the final episode of “Babylon 5”.